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Smith, Stephanie A. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2017
Expectancy violations theory, a communicative framework, is applied in this study to understand how recent college graduates form, evaluate, and respond to violated job-searching expectations. In-depth interviews of college seniors (N = 20) who were currently job searching helped answer the three research questions posed. Using a thematic…
Descriptors: Job Application, Job Applicants, Job Search Methods, College Graduates
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Sverko, Branimir; Galic, Zvonimir; Sersic, Darja Maslic; Galesic, Mirta – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
A three-wave longitudinal study of unemployed persons in Croatia was used to examine the antecedents of job-seeking behavior and reemployment. A series of demographic, motivational and job-constraint variables were posited to influence job-seeking behavior, which, in turn, was hypothesized to affect (re)employment. The participants were surveyed…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Employment Level, Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods
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Saks, Alan M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine the combined and differential effects of five job search behaviors (informal sources, formal sources, preparatory search intensity, active search intensity, job search effort) on five criteria of job search success (job interviews, job offers, employment status, person-job fit, and person-organization fit)…
Descriptors: Graduates, Employment Level, Self Efficacy, Job Applicants